Winner of the ninth Vendee Globe Race, Yannick Bestaven has embarked on an ambitious sporting dream: to win the Everest of the Seas twice in a row, the round-the-world sailing solo and non-stop.
Building on this objective, Maître CoQ has renewed its sponsorship for Bestaven and his sailing team.
A partnership contract was signed until June 2025, resulting in a new IMOCA yacht.
The construction of Maître CoQ V will begin in June 2021 in the boat building site of, CDK technologies, in Port-La-Forêt, for a launch one year later. It will be a Verdier plan, designed in the moulds of the 11th Hour 2 monohull.
Bestaven will start this season in two double-handed races, the Rolex Fastnet Race on August 8 in the waters of the Solent and November 8 in the Jacques Vabre transatlantic which will leave from Le Havre for Martinique.
Bestaven has called on a sailor who has supported him since the start of the Master CoQ project, Roland Jourdain to be his double-handed partner in both these races.